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Nelson Mandela's wife, Winnie hospitalized with Kidney infection

South African
anti-apartheid veteran Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has been hospitalised for a
kidney infection but is expected to make a full recovery.

According to SA Times
Live, quoting her spokesman Victor Dlamini, said the 81-year-old had complained
of a “loss of appetite” and that “one of her legs was painful”. She was taken to Milpark Hospital in
Johannesburg on Sunday.

“Upon admission‚ it
was discovered that she had an infection that had affected her kidneys. “She is
expected to make a full recovery and should spend approximately a week at the
hospital‚” Dlamini was quoted as saying in a statement on Tuesday night. Madikizela-Mandela’s personal assistant,
Zodwa Zwane, directed all queries to Dlamini, who was not immediately available
for comment.

Madikizela-Mandela,
ex-wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, has been in and out
of hospital since 2016 for back and knee surgery. During her ex-husband’s
27-year imprisonment for his fight against apartheid, Madikizela-Mandela
campaigned for his release and the rights of black South Africans, undergoing
arrest and banishment.